Rachael DenHollander’s What is a Girl Worth? is the most powerful book on sexual abuse I’ve ever read. Her “story of breaking the silence and exposing the truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics” is well-known. What I didn’t know is that she’d also been molested by as a young girl by someone at her church. That case hadn’t been handled well. And right around the time the Larry Nassar case was developing, the church that Rachael and her husband Jacob were attending was experiencing a scandal involving the cover-up of sexual abuse. So the book isn’t just about a sports doctor – it’s also about how churches deal with this issue.
Read more»Wes Bredenhof | “What is a Girl Worth? — Highlights” | October 19th, 2023
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